Justice is Born in “The Gap”
We would all like to skip from the birth of a movement to its justice in entirety. But “the gap” cannot be glorified; it demands we abandon our egos, and endure long term diligence, likely without recognition.
Chloe Becker is an artist committed to creating Catholic art for racial justice. She graduated from Magnificat High School in 2020, is currently taking a gap year, and will be attending Harvard University in the fall of 2021. She is spending her time this year in Cleveland, Ohio as an intern at ISN and doing lots of painting. In 2019, she painted a mural at her high school to strengthen the Catholic Church's voice against racism, which gained attention over social media and was published in an article in America Magazine. She spoke at the 2019 Ignatian Family Teach-in for Justice, and has had her writing published by ISN.
We would all like to skip from the birth of a movement to its justice in entirety. But “the gap” cannot be glorified; it demands we abandon our egos, and endure long term diligence, likely without recognition.
May we follow in Jesus’s lead, always recentering conversation on what truly matters一repaying to God (and thus, the world) the just, Agape love that first belonged to God.
“I don’t have answers, but I’m sick of being a part of white silence.”
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